[Bf-committers] Installation/file paths

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi,

I'm proposing to look for the folder in the same directory as the
executable first, and if that doesn't exist, in the system location
(/usr/share/blender). This means that /usr/bin/datafiles would be used
if it was there, but that's an unintentional side effect and the
folder should be installed in /usr/share/blender when blender is
installed in /usr/bin/blender. This just also covers the case of
running blender from an unpacked archive, without using a wrapper
script to find the right folder.

Brecht.

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Ken Hughes <khughes at pacific.edu> wrote:
> Before I comment, let me be sure I understand what's being proposed:
>
> On Unix, the blender executable would most likely be /usr/bin/blender.
> So the proposal is to have a /usr/bin/datafiles folder for the system
> data files?  If so, I don't think that's a good idea, for Unix anyway.
> You don't expect to find any data in /usr/bin.
>
> Ken
>
> On 05/11/2010 02:37 AM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Rob M<rob.nospam at 4mation.co.uk>  wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with most of this but why can't the default location for the system
>>> data files be in the datafiles sub directory of the directory where the
>>> blender executable resides?
>>>
>> Proposal looks fine to me, but I agree with this. We can avoid a
>> wrapper script, making it use the folder in the same directory doesn't
>> conflict, so it could just look for a "datafiles" in the same folder
>> first.
>>
>> Brecht.
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